I'm interested to hear from organically-minded Chinese green aficionados on which tea sellers (and organic Chinese Greens) are their favorites.
Lastly, if you feel like ranking them, that would be super-cool!
P.S. One of our local shops in Portland, OR, Townsend Tea, has a single estate Tai Mu San that I'm pretty nutty about. (Unfortunately it's not listed on their site).
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I have only had a few, but I always thought that the Jade Cloud from Rishi was a very good tea.
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Nice review and photos. The tea looks very tempting with lovely silver tips!Space Samurai wrote:I have only had a few, but I always thought that the Jade Cloud from Rishi was a very good tea.
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About organic and fair trade, a problem is, I guess most farmers in China never heard of the certification system. Internet actually largely promotes fair trade. Nowadays many people buy from farmers or first hand dealers through internet, and therefore more profits will go to the farmers instead of being diluted in rounds of trades.
Many products within Chinese market have province government or national government organic certification, but most of them are the "brand name" products, which are usually produced by larger companies, very much over-priced, and therefore not so much fair-trade. Most products directly purchased from farmers or first hand dealers don't have any certification. But usually a tea can't be good without "clean" cultivation.
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I've only recently gotten into Chinese greens but have always gone with organic wherever I could.
The first Chinese green I tried was a gift, Special Teas' "Fine Lung Ching Organic (#523)." Very nutty and quite good. They have a handful of other organic Chinese greens that look interesting.
The best I've had so far is the 2008 organic Tai Ping Hou Kui from Seven Cups. Pricey at ~$1.19 / gram, but very good and a little goes a long way (five to seven leaves in my 180mL guywan will last a good seven or eight infusions).
The first Chinese green I tried was a gift, Special Teas' "Fine Lung Ching Organic (#523)." Very nutty and quite good. They have a handful of other organic Chinese greens that look interesting.
The best I've had so far is the 2008 organic Tai Ping Hou Kui from Seven Cups. Pricey at ~$1.19 / gram, but very good and a little goes a long way (five to seven leaves in my 180mL guywan will last a good seven or eight infusions).
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Chinese organic tea - how do you feel about teas which only have the Chinese organic certification vs those which have a US or European certification? I'm not sure how much difference there may be between these various certifications but from what little I've been able to learn, it seems that the European/EU cerifications are probably the most strict in terms of chemicals tested, etc. Any thoughts?
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Germany is supoosed to be the strictest on the planet from what I hear. I heard first hand about a shipment of Chinese fannings that were rejected by German labs, the fannings were then targeted for good ole USA.
The downside of the strict standards, they tend to have greatly reduced selection of teas (and many other products for that matter).
The downside of the strict standards, they tend to have greatly reduced selection of teas (and many other products for that matter).
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